UNCANNY Synonyms

• fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters

• suggesting the operation of supernatural influences

• strikingly odd or unusual

• conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual

• annoying and unpleasant

• causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin

• suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious

• inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening

• beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable; special

• far more than usual or expected

• (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials

• resembling or characteristic of a phantom

• continually recurring to the mind

• having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect

• incapable of being explained or accounted for

• of an obscure nature

• having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding

• beyond or deviating from the usual or expected

• unique or specific to a person or thing or category

• markedly different from the usual; special

• characteristic of one only; distinctive or special

• unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

• being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird

• relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world

• not known before

• not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature

• not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm

• speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

• not usual or common or ordinary

• being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird

• not commonly encountered

• suggesting the operation of supernatural influences

• surpassing the ordinary or normal

• existing outside of or not in accordance with nature

• concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul

• suggesting the operation of supernatural influences